Cedar Ridge Health Rehab Center

Although we did not have many favorable things to say about this place's overall grade, it earned a respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent score in this area with a B-. Our inspection grades are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home's second best area ended up being short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. Our nursing score analyzes many subcategories, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is not an impressive total. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

Moving on to the last area, we gave this nursing home a D in long-term care. This was the facility's worst category score. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated just 69.11315 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.